KTTZ-TV Wins Two Emmys

Paul Hunton, KTTZ-TV station manager, remembers the feeling of winning his first major industry award. “Winning was a surreal experience,” Hunton said. “They call the nominees, then they called us out as the winner, and I really don’t remember much after that. You go on stage, say a speech, and they whisk you backstage, and the statuettes […]

Student Spotlight: Locke Takes on New York

It took many hours of research and many Google searches for Lauren Locke, a Texas Tech graduate student, to find her dream internship. But the effort paid off. This fall, she is hard at work at the Rockefeller Center  in New York as an intern for the “The Meredith Vieira Show.” “It still gives me chills walking […]

Journalism Student Speaks at Disability Awareness Event

October is worldwide Disability Awareness Month, and Tech’s Student Disability Services office hosted events throughout week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. George Stern, a senior journalism student who is blind, gave a speech called “Context of Disabilities” before the annual deaf bingo event Tuesday night. He started by asking the audience to name disabilities. […]